Nordic Ventures is looking to hire employees for our 2019 kayaking season! We are based in two locations: Gudvangen, at the start of the Nærøyfjord, and have a smaller booking location and meeting place in Voss, on the lakefront. We operate Sea Kayaking tours and Multi-day Adventure tours. You can find more information on the About Us page.

Our operational season runs from Mid April to early October – available positions range from 4-5 months contract length. All first year guides must complete a 4 day non paid training program in the last week of April or alternatively last week of June, prior to starting work.

Internship Guide Trainee opportunities with Nordic Ventures for the 2019 Season

Current # of unfilled positions: 6

Sea Kayak Guide trainee/ internships: April 29th to September 23rd

Nordic Ventures have opened up 6 internship guide trainee positions for the 2019 season. If you are burning for making yourself a career in the outdoor industry, our Internship guide trainee course may be a great way for you to get started.Becoming a good guide requires passion, dedication, hard work and a lot of time. Often you will need to work many days, weeks or months for free while building up your qualification and experience level. This can be a hard and frustrating process and you don’t always end up with guaranteed work.

At Nordic Ventures we don’t believe in unpaid internships as we respect your time and value your efforts.At the same time we are unable to offer fully paid guide jobs to people who do not meet our minimum requirements for guide positions listed. We have therefore developed our own internship program which includes training, equipment and everything needed in order to get started with guiding, without having to invest a lot of free time and money prior to securing your first guide job.

Our Internship Program – that will be offered the first time in 2019, consists of the following modules:

A 5 day Fjord Guiding module

A 5 day White Water Kayaking module to greatly improve your kayaking skills in a short time

A 5 day Open Water Kayaking module in exposed parts of the Norwegian West-Coast to further build your skills

A First Aid Course and various lessons covering safety in the outdoors

Kitchen, Base and Guide work at Nordic Ventures paid by an hourly rate – 800 hours of work guaranteed

A Gear package that you will need to complete some of the modules above

How does it work?

Accepted candidates ( maximum 6 ) will be offered the Internship Guide Trainee package that are basically the training modules listed above. You pay a tuition fee and a gear fee for this course, which is then deducted from your salary during the season so that all in all you actually end up with quite a good deal:

Gear fee: NOK 12.500,- (Dry suit, Guide PFD with towing line, Paddle Jacket, Neoprene Spray skirt – these things are all new and will be yours to keep)

Total Course package: NOK 32.500,- (if you have your own Dry suit, PFD and Sprayskirt that we can approve, you can save the gear costs of NOK 12.500,-)

Work: In conjunction with/ following your training program, you will be offered work in our operation on a starting level. This will involve kitchen work, base work and guiding tours. All this work is paid for and will help you insure you can complete the Internship Guide Trainee program at no expense and still have a fair amount of money in the bank at the end of the season. A rough calculation shows that after paying for the Course Fee, Gear Fee, Taxation on your salary, House Rent and Food Expenses, you should still be able to save up around NOK 50.000,- over summer. We think that is a fair deal.

At the end of the season you may want to pursue a certification process to have all your accumulated experience turned into a rating or certificate. We are able to assist you with documentation for your acquired skills but any certification costs are to be paid for by the Internship Trainees themselves as Nordic Ventures is not a certifying body or organization. The possibilities for this will be discussed with the accepted candidates as it may be beneficial to you to become certified in your own country depending on your future work wishes.

Our season runs from Mid April to early October – The Internship Guide Trainee Course starts on April 29th 2019 and will end by September 23rd. You are required to arrive in Norway and be available for training starting on April 29th.

To express your interest in this program or apply to be accepted, please fill out our online guide application and select Internship . Please make sure to include a couple or recent and clear images when sending us your resume. Incomplete resume’s may not receive a reply.

Personal Requirements you need to have to be considered for an internship

Internship Guide Trainee requirements:

European Passport

You can still apply if you don’t hold a European Passport but UDI processing will cost you NOK 5.400,- for your Visa.